Oil can



nucwtoz Alagol Ely :um en i Sept. 2 1924.

Im. B. ELY

OIL CAN Filed Sent. 28. 192) i To'll whom t may concern:

Patented Sept. 2, 1924.

UNITED STATES' 1,507,233 PAT ENT VVOFFIC ALONZO B. ELY, OF Gno'roN, NEWYORK, AssIGNOn vTo CORONA'TYPEWRITEB, GOM-v rANY, INC., OF GROTON, NEWYORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

OIL GAN.

Application ined september 2a, 1921'. .serilfnetoaisoa Be it known thatLALONZO B. ELY, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Groton,in the county of Tompkins and State of New York, have invented certain inew and useful Improvements in (')il Cans,

of which the following is a specification.

,This invention relates to improvements in oil cans, and has for itsprincipal objects to rovide an oil can which may be easily and)economically manufactured, to provide a can which will not roll, tolprovidea cylindrical can having a removable screw closure cap at`one endand a grippingportionrat the other end whereby the cap may g be tightlyscrewed on the can body and readilyremoved, and to provide an oil can ofthe dropper typewzhich-Will not leak and is provided with a combinedpacking seat and dropper scraper so arranged that lubricant scraped fromthe dropperrod will fall back into the interior ofthe can bdy.

To the foregoing and other ends, which will hereinafter appear, theinvention con? sists of the features of construction, varrange-V 1 mentsof parts, and combinations of devices set forth in thefollo-wingvdescription and particularly pointed out ,in the appendedclaims. i t. t

In the accompanying drawings, vin which the preferred embodiment of theinvention is illustrated, t jY Y Figure 1 Lis a sidevelevation ofthe.can; `F ig. 2 a vertical section on the line 2 2 o fFigl; l' v Fig. 3 adetail sectional view of the closure cap 'with the sealing washerOrgasket .and the dropper rod removed therefrom;

Fig'. i a sectional view of the sealing gasket;

Fig. 5 a detail vertical sectional view of the open upper end of the canbody;

Fig. 6 a side elevation of the lower end of the can body, the view beingtaken from one side of the can as shown in F ig. 1; and

distortion inthe handsma section of suitable length One end'pf thesection of tubing is then spun over to form an inwardly einI tendingcircumferential flange 11 overhanging the interior ofthe tubular canbody in a plane at right angles to the longitudinal axis of 4thesectionof tubing, and the end portion of the can body adjacent said Hange isprovidedwith external -screw threads 12,

The opposite end lof the section of tubing is pressedlat betweensuitable dies lto close the bottomV ofnthe' ;c`a`n body and form a fiatgripping portion leonsisting of two thick-` nesses of metal pressedcloselytogether and wider, thanthe diameter of the main cylindricalportion ,ofthe Vcan body. The can body is, drawn in nto .general wedgeform by thepressingoperation for a short distance above theliatpotgtionl, as shown at '14, said wedge shapedportibn cooperatingwiththe flat, ortion 4'13 tto, afford ia substantial non?` Ciru er,grimms-surface which' may firmly grasped tween the thumb and ngra t0Artnt-l-l'rowry' Slipping 0f the embody ,ini the ha -divhile the Closure'cap hereinafter describe4 is being uscrewed on lor olf the open upperend o'ffthe ca'nQbody The closure. :cap l5 isf |:`ormedof relativelyheavy Ametal:stocliiandis `cup shaped, said cap `being 4 provided wit h1nternal screw threads j16to"permit thefcap to be screwed down oyerfltheupper endA of the can. A packing disk orwaslier1"(1'V of suitable mate?rial is forced up into the interior, of the closure cap, Said disk beingof l sutlicient diameterto besecurely retained in the cap by theuppermost screw threads'l when the cap is removed frein .the'cam saiduppermost screwl threadsfibiting into the edge of the packing disk whichis relatively thick The exterior of the cap is knurled, as shown at 18,So that the cap may be firmly gripped and will not slip in the fingersduring removal or re lacement of the cap. The packing disk is adapted tobe tightly seated on the flange 11 when ca the can body, said flan eOrming a relatively wide seat around Sie u per end of the can andcooperating with t e packing disk to elieotively seal the can.

The head portion of the cap 15 is relatively thick and is provided witha central socket 19 into which the reduced upper end of a dropper rod 20is tightly driven to rigidly connect said rod to the cap, the cap 'ieeieeaaeeeee fd, Een

The lower Venel 21 wall of the cap einem me een ed en flange when9.53154v

